# What do the following have in common? (game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927 "2005-05-15T12:31:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/141 "2005-05-23T21:02:57Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > So is this thread going to die with all these unanswered questions? Apparently so. The questioners are too good for the answerers, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/142 "2005-05-23T23:41:44Z")
**PriceGuy** Nice to see someone bumping this thread besides me. I believe I only have 1 unanswered question so here’s the answer: The 4 songs I named are all in 3/4 time. Nothing so spectacular about that except 3/4 time is rarely used in rock and roll. ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/143 "2005-05-24T02:11:38Z")
> [@dbygawdcapn](#): > > Another repost, with a hint. > > Sharon Stone, Jerry Garcia, Prince, The Captain and Tennille. > > Ronaldo _almost_ made the list this year. As long as we are just handing out answers, They were all married on Valentines Day, although not to each other, except for The Captain and Tennille. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/144 "2005-05-24T10:33:15Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > H.G. Wells, Vasco da Gama, Chaucer, Plato, Marco Polo, Julius Caesar, Schrödinger. I admit I’d never get this one myself. They are all names of craters on the Moon. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/145 "2005-05-26T06:53:49Z")
Can someone answer and put me out of my misery? :o ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/146 "2005-05-26T18:11:37Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > No answers, but a couple more questions: > > Millipedes, tidal waves, radiators and _cors anglaises_. > > Sodium, gold, antimony and mercury (other than all being metals). Is the answer to the first one that they all have “misleading” names? Millipedes do not have 1000 legs, tidal waves are not tidal, radiators principally work by convection not radiation, and _cors anglaises_ are not English. Here’s a classic along the same lines - tough if you don’t know it, and damn-near impossible if you’re not British, I’m afraid: Villa did it 1979, Sunderland did it in 1981. Who did it in 1980? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/147 "2005-05-26T18:44:59Z")
I was trying to remember another one from _Says You!_, the first two were **John McEnroe** and **Floyd Patterson**. The thing they have in common… …is that they both had classic rivalries with Swedes: McEnroe with Bjorn Borg, Patterson with Ingemar Johansson. Can anybody think of a third? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/148 "2005-05-26T19:32:26Z")
> [@Dead Cat](#): > > . > > Here’s a classic along the same lines - tough if you don’t know it, and damn-near impossible if you’re not British, I’m afraid: > > Villa did it 1979, Sunderland did it in 1981. Who did it in 1980? Something to do with soccer? Am I on the right track? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/149 "2005-05-26T20:10:30Z")
**Cicero** - That’s a good start 🙂 . **Robot Arm** - Laura Davies (top female golfer), Boris Becker, Queen (the band)?! Not quite there, I don’t think, except perhaps the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927/150 "2005-05-27T04:33:03Z")
I think members should be banned when they leave answers hanging. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-the-following-have-in-common-game/303927.md?page=7)